About Today's Midwife

Today’s midwife is a skilled health care professional who provides high quality primary health care to women. While midwives are probably best known for their care of women during pregnancy and childbirth, they serve women throughout life.

Midwives offer collaborative care—care with physician back-up when indicated. She offers sensitive, confidential and personal primary care, gynecologic care as well as prenatal, labor and postpartum care.

Midwifery care is covered by private insurance carriers, Medicare, Medicaid and many managed care programs, as well as military and federal employee health plans. They can practice in hospitals, birth centers, managed care organizations, private offices, clinics and public health departments.